As you know, Elizabeth Warren has been caught in a series of at best misleading and at worst false responses since The Boston Herald first broke the story in late April that Harvard Law promoted her as Native American in the mid-to-late 1990s.

First she played dumb and said she didn’t know why. But over the course of several weeks digging by bloggers and newspapers punctured Warren’s story, and revealed or forced Warren to admit she listed herself as Native American to get on a list of “Minority Law Teachers” in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, that she informed both Penn Law and Harvard Law that she was Native American for federal reporting purposes, and that she was on a list at Harvard during her “visiting year” of “Women of Color in Legal Academia.”

Yet Warren persists in the claim to this day, raising bizarre defenses such as her Aunt Bea told her her ancestors had high cheekbones “like all the Indians” and that her parents supposedly had to elope because her mother was 1/16 Native American.

As you know, a group of four Cherokee women including Barnes traveled to Boston this week to seek a meeting with Warren, who has refused to do so. The Boston press has been all over it, including The Herald, The Globe, and Fox25 among many others.

Rather than meet with the Cherokee women and prove her heritage or apologize, Warren’s response has been to create a shiny object for the press to focus on, a “right wing extremist“:

Warren’s camp responded late today with this statement: “The people of Massachusetts are concerned about their jobs, the future for their kids, and the security of their retirement. Scott Brown would rather talk about anything else. The out-of-state group in question is being promoted and supported by a right wing extremist who is on the record supporting and contributing money to Scott Brown. It is past time we moved on to the important issues facing middle class families in Massachusetts – even if Scott Brown won’t.”

The Warren statement does not identify the “right wing extremist,” but her campaign has been feeding my name to dutiful scriveners at places such as CBS Boston, who use old information from the Brown-Coakley race:

Sorry Professor Warren, you created the problem and you own it. No one else.

You could have put this issue to rest early on, but you and you alone chose a campaign of deception and hiding, in the hope it would go away. Now you hope to distract from your own failings with yet another diversion.

So you can keep flashing that shiny object, but you cannot make the issue go away until you come clean, release all records, and stop pointing the finger at others.

The truth will out.

And all the millions you pocket when you go to Hollywood or Wall Street cannot change that.

“Fauxcahontas” is good but “Pretendian” is much better. The Urban Dictionary defined the term long before this Warren matter. Here’s the first paragraph of the definition:

“A wannabe American Indian. Usually exhibited by white people but blacks do it too. Claims to be 1/4th Native American or a lesser percentage, but usually have no definitive proof of it or of what tribe they’re from (unless it’s Cherokee of course). If such ancestry exists, they tend to exaggerate the very small amount that they have after generations of their family neglecting this heritage.”

OK so there is indisputable evidence that Warren is a liar and should not be a US senator but she is running in Massachusetts!!!! Come on, it’s not like they found a body in her car. Now that would be a problem. OH maybe not.

[…] Elizabeth Warren has referred to blogger William Jacobson as an “extremist.” (See: Elizabeth Warren loses it, lashes out at ‘right wing extremist.’) I think it’s time we were clear that actual extremism refers to those who would […]

The funniest thing about this is that, as I read this article, one of the syndicated ads in the left sidebar is from Elizabeth for MA, asking us all to “Wish Elizabeth Warren a Happy Birthday!”

I don’t know about wishing HER a happy birthday, but she’s certainly making all of MY days happy with her bumbling ineptitude and tin-eared sense of entitlement. rarely have I laughed so hard at a “legitimate” political candidate. She’s comedy gold!

It’s not clear how Warren could have laid the issue to rest by coming clean earlier. She can’t come clean, then or now. To come clean is to admit that she’s a fraud, a con-man, a fake, someone who owes her entire career to a false claim of membership in a particularly well-favored grievance group. She’d be dead meat to both proponents and opponents of Affirmative Action. A tough situation to be in, even if well-deserved.

I don’t believe Legal Insurrection, or Professor Jacobsen are actively “promoting” or “supporting” Twila Barnes (IIRC). I think the most he can be accused of is “cheering them on”, but more accurately – reporting and editorializing in regards to their activities as an interested but objective and disconnected third party.

Yes, “the people of Massachusetts” are concerned about jobs. They’re also concerned about whether their elected representatives are willing to game the system to benefit themselves. They worry about putting their trust into someone who has demonstrated that she do not warrant it, someone who will hold her own narrow self-interest over the interest of the voters and the public.

[…] Elizabeth Warren loses it, lashes out at “right wing extremist” (me)- As you know, Elizabeth Warren has been caught in a series of at best misleading and at worst false responses since The Boston Herald first broke the story in late April that Harvard Law promoted her as Native American in the mid-to-late 1990s.First she played dumb and said she didn’t know why. But over the course of several weeks digging by bloggers and newspapers punctured Warren’s story, and revealed or forced Warren to admit she listed herself as Native American to get on a list of “Minority Law Teachers” in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, that she informed both Penn Law and Harvard Law that she was Native American for federal reporting purposes, and that she was on a list at Harvard during her “visiting year” of “Women of Color in Legal Academia.”Genealogical tracing of Warren’s alleged Cherokee ancestry by a group of Cherokees led by Twila Barnes has shown that Warren has no Cherokee heritage. The documentation and research has been posted for all to see. Anger at Warren extends beyond Cherokees.Yet Warren persists in the claim to this day, raising bizarre defenses such as her Aunt Bea told her her ancestors had high cheekbones “like all the Indians” and that her parents supposedly had to elope because her mother was 1/16 Native American. […]

Well, are you specifically contending that said Scottish ancestry permits you to contribute a unique perspective that adds to the diversity at your place of employment? Because that is what Warren essentially did in listing her primary race as “Native American” in school and Department of Labor statistics. There is indeed a distinction between “ancestry” and “heritage,” but the difference is more or less immaterial in this context because she has valid claim to neither. Additionally, she is presently maximizing her relationship to the apparatus of Cherokee culture by asserting that she will be the first Senator from Massachusetts with a Native background, so evidently it constitues an “important issue” for her in specific settings, just not ones that directly involve the people to whom she is so otherwise “proud” to share said background.

[…] While the left is jumping all over this as a sign of weakness I see just the opposite. If you’ve got a sitting GOP senator unfazed by incurring the inevitable media wrath of the MSM in Massachusetts that tells you where this election is going almost as much as Former Obama Administration Official Elizabeth Warren getting spooked by conservative bloggers. […]

Warren’s cheekbones look pretty high in that second video. Maybe we’re judging her too harshly. If you stick a feather in her hair and squint, I think should could pass as 1/32 Cherokee. Maybe even 1/16.

I agree that it’s silly for her to lash out and call you a right wing extremist. You’re no right winger nor extremist; you’re a neoconservative who loves big government and denigrates limited government people such as Ron Paul.

[…] While the left is jumping all over this as a sign of weakness I see just the opposite. If you’ve got a sitting GOP senator unfazed by incurring the inevitable media wrath of the MSM in Massachusetts that tells you where this election is going almost as much as Former Obama Administration Official Elizabeth Warren getting spooked by conservative bloggers. […]

[…] intimidating them has been a lengthy one for quite sometime, so it behooves us not to forget that William Jacobson was recently targeted and, as I reported here last year here, Donald Douglas has been for a while. In fact, Tuesday […]